Lições da ayahuasca na AEUDV pernambucanaDOI: 10.5007/1984-8951.2010v11n98p525
Cadernos de Pesquisa Interdisciplinar em Ciências Humanas June 30, 2010 Wagner Lins Lira 1 citation
In a schismatic branch of the União do Vegetal in Riacho das Almas, Pernambuco, participants experience spiritual phenomena during ayahuasca sessions that connect them to the Superior Astral. The group's doctrine, rooted in the principles of founder José Gabriel da Costa, embraces a complementary, non-reductive dualism of spirit and matter. Dialogues and interviews with followers reveal the manifestation of religious ecstasy and the prescribed routes for processing information received in ayahuasca rites, which are understood as a teacher drink that tests pupils through contact with spiritual reality.